1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my podcast. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,000 In this one I want to talk to you about the Vedic sciences of mantras, 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 the science of sounds as told by the Vedic tradition. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,000 But just moving back, even if you indulge yourself for a moment with 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 what the esoteric sciences of other cultures and traditions have spoken of. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 For example, in the Bible it is said in the beginning was the word of God. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Even if you have read Paul Selig's books on I am the word series, 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:45,000 you will know the word has been given a lot of importance by all kinds of esoteric traditions in the world. 9 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:54,000 So in Vedic tradition it is portrayed as the science of mantras or the science of sounds themselves. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Now if you have taken some time to study the mantras, they are a combination of walls and consonants 11 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 structured in a certain string of words. 12 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 And these words have a lot of connotations in them. 13 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,000 But let me share with you how I have come to understand it so far. 14 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 The sound itself, let us consider what sound means in this dimension of existence. 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Sound is made by striking of two objects. 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Let it be any kind of instrument. 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000 It might be an air instrument like a flute or a saxophone, 18 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 or it might be like playing of a piano, striking of a string, violin, 19 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 or striking of drums like the percussion instruments. 20 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 There are various kinds of sounds that can be made by air, by matter, and so on and so forth. 21 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 And each one has a reverberation in the air. 22 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 It produces certain kind of resonance in us as human beings. 23 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It activates certain chakras at the physical level. 24 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 So basically the science of sounds affects us as human beings. 25 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 It affects the animals. 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 It affects everything living being in sentient. 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 But what is it conveying? 28 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It is conveying both a mathematical structure of resonance. 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:30,000 The science of sound is about resonance in terms of esoterics, in terms of music, 30 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,000 in terms of whatever we have in terms of our chants, esoterics, mantras. 31 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,000 So the mantras themselves are a resonance of sounds, 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 a combination thereof which produces what really? 33 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 It produces a certain kind of vibration physically. 34 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:57,000 It makes our DNA and our molecules and our different chakra systems vibrate in a certain way. 35 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 And what does that vibration create in turn? 36 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:10,000 That vibration creates the assimilation of the knowledge and the scope of that energy. 37 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 And this scope of energy is felt in the form of light. 38 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:23,000 You can say this form, this sound activates certain forms and signatures of the energies we are trying to tune into. 39 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 It's like tuning a radio station. 40 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:33,000 If you tune into a particular radio station, you expect a certain kind of music, whatever your choice of music might be. 41 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:44,000 In the same way, when you are chanting or listening or tuning into a certain mantra in Vedic tradition, 42 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:53,000 you are basically inviting to tune yourself, align yourself as a being with all the chakras combined. 43 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:02,000 You are aligning yourself with the energies and the scope and the dimensional implications of that energy. 44 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 That creation energy, that aspect of the oneness of creator of all that is. 45 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,000 You are inviting that and tuning your being into that energy. 46 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Why would you do that? 47 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Well, what I offer is you do that to understand what the scope of this energy is, 48 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:31,000 to understand the part and parcel of existence itself, where and how this energy plays out. 49 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 And it is grand. Every mantra is grand in its scope. 50 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:47,000 More so will be felt by those nakshatras which have snake in them, like Rohini, like Mrakashira, like Ashlesha nakshatra. 51 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 So these ones which have snake as symbolism in the nakshatras, 52 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:59,000 if majority of your planets and points are in those nakshatras, you will feel this very, very strongly resonant. 53 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Your entire being will shiver with the energies that you feel in these mantras. 54 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 It is not so much about intellectualizing stuff. 55 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,000 It is not so much about having dictionaries and volumes and volumes of texts written on it. 56 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Mantras are not about intellectual dissertation. 57 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Mantras are about tuning yourself as a tuning folk. 58 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Into that energy which is divine, which is sacred, which has always been here, which always will be. 59 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:43,000 And you are tuning your body, your being, your DNA, your cellular structure, your bones, your flesh, your blood, your DNA. 60 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Everything you are tuning into that energy form. 61 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:54,000 The creation and the one creation and the creator energy can be expressed in multitude of ways. 62 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:02,000 What you are trying to do with listening to a mantra, for example, is you are tuning yourself like a tuning folk. 63 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 What does this mean? What does a bija mantra mean? What does the sahasranama mean? 64 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Or the thousand names? Why the thousand names? 65 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 All of these questions we have. 66 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 But what I suggest to you is listen to it. 67 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 First listen to it without even understanding anything. 68 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Don't try to intellectualize it. Don't try to manufacture meanings out of your mind. 69 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Your mind is incapable of making meanings. It's capable of receiving meanings. 70 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Definitely. You can channel, you can tune into it, you can receive all the energies you want. 71 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 That's what you should be focusing your thing on. 72 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:56,000 And what I suggest, well, the greatest mantra ever spoken in the Vedic tradition, as per my feeling, is om shanti shanti shanti. 73 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Which means, om the absolute and peace, peace, peace. 74 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Peace is the absolute form of all that is, of all the oneness of all that is. 75 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Because in oneness there is no separation of any kind, there is no push and pull of any kind, there is no polarity of any kind. 76 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 So it's always in peace with itself. 77 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 So that I feel is the greatest mantra. However, we are here in this physical dimension. 78 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 We are here in this shift. 79 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,000 So we need to make use of this mantras. Use as in not try to get some goodies out of it. 80 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Not trying to get wealth or partnerships or any number of these things. 81 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:49,000 We've got to rise about these folks. We've got to really rise about all kinds of misrepresentations and misunderstandings surrounding this system of sounds. 82 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 And it's beautiful. It's there in every culture, by the way. 83 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 But I'm speaking specifically here about the Vedic tradition. 84 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 So in the Vedic tradition, you need to embrace the science of sounds. 85 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 You need to listen to it, absorb it, memorize it, maybe hum with it, 86 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,000 maybe recite with it, maybe go all the directions. 87 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:18,000 But just playing the mantra out loud without understanding anything of it, doesn't matter which culture you belong to. 88 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 You might not understand a word of it. 89 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 But just playing these Sahasranamas are the thousand names. 90 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Let's say Lalitha Sahasranama, let's say Vishnu Sahasranama, let's say Rudra Prashna, let's say Lakshmi Sahasranama, let's say Ganpati Sahasranama. 91 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:40,000 The Sahasranama means one thousand names and one thousand names is a fractal kind of energy. 92 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,000 They have one thousand meanings each and they go into one thousand meanings in of themselves. 93 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:51,000 So it's a fractal kind of energy, you might say, as I feel it in sense it. 94 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:58,000 And these names you need to recite, you need to not necessarily chant along with them, start by listening to them. 95 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:05,000 And just listen to every single word that is spoken and let the mantra reveal itself to you. 96 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Don't listen to any translation, don't Google translations on the web. 97 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Most of them are misconstrued, in my opinion, in my research. 98 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Don't let the mantra speak themselves to you. 99 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 It will be revealing, it will be like you start channeling different things. 100 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,000 It will be like you tuning into different kind of energies that you never knew even existed before. 101 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:39,000 It was not there in your mind, it will be downloaded to your mind, it will be downloaded to your heart, it will be downloaded to your abilities. 102 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:46,000 You will start evolving at a much more faster pace if you just recite these Sahasranamas. 103 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:53,000 They are very powerful, but power itself in this dimension is an illusion. 104 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Power is not as give and take, power as in not power like domination and control as is being told now. 105 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,000 It's nothing to do with that. Power as in you becoming more powerful than your previous moment. 106 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:16,000 You becoming more in tune with the beauty of creation itself, how wonderfully this whole thing has been created. 107 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,000 What is the rhyme and the rhythm that governs all these things that surround me? 108 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:27,000 What is it that maintains the structure and the foundation of this universe? 109 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:33,000 And everything around me, this sofa, this table, this chair, these birds, these plants, these animals, 110 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,000 you want to tune yourself into that. It's an attunement force. 111 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And the more you attune, the more you will see the beauty of life, the more you will see the beauty of harmony. 112 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:54,000 The more you see how one thing is working with another, doesn't matter what we perceive as animate or inanimate or this or that. 113 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Those are just once again polarizations. 114 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:04,000 But the mantras, the science of sounds of Vedas has only one purpose in my view. 115 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 It is to attune yourself. It is to become more of who you are. 116 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:18,000 It's for expansion of consciousness, expansion of heart, expansion beyond the limited scope of duality and mind itself. 117 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Alright? So use these mantras, chant them, play them out loud as much as you want, 118 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,000 as much as you can tune yourself into and let them reveal themselves to you. 119 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 That's the way it works. 120 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:38,000 It is not worked upon by intellectualization or research on the Google. 121 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:45,000 It is more of you tuning your life energy, your cells, your body, for your healing, for your greater becoming. 122 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Alright? 123 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:57,000 So take care, be safe. I'll leave you with this much. Have a good day.